Vaughan Grylls
Vaughan Grylls is an artist and writer. He was educated at Goldsmiths and at the Slade and has taught at Reading, Cambridge and at several Colleges and Universities in the USA and the UK.
Authors
Our authors of crime fiction, thrillers and mysteries, detective books, crime stories and page-turning books.
Friedrich Glauser
Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna in 1896. Often referred to as the Swiss Simenon, he died aged forty-two a few days before he was due to be married. Diagnosed a schizophrenic, addicted to morphine...
Vesna Goldsworthy
She has worked in Britain for the BBC, in publishing, and in academia. Currently Professor of English at Kingston University
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay, concrete poet, visual artist, one of Scotland's leading intellectuals of the last century.
Katja Ivar
Katja Ivar grew up in Russia and the U.S. Trouble is the third and latest in the Hella Mauzer series.
Petra Hammesfahr
Petra Hammesfahr, born in 1951, has not had an easy life. The inspiration for her bittersweet family crime novels where the sweetness of childhood and the horror of adults meet.
Isabelle Janvrin and Catherine Rawlinson
Isabelle Janvrin studied languages and Catherine Rawlinson, history and art history. They were both born and brought up in France, and both married Englishmen. They combined their interests in history and art history to research the presence of French people in this vast city.
Eva Joly
Eva Joly was a prosecuting judge in France famous for her anti-corruption cases, including that against Elf-Aquitaine. She is now running in the French presidential elections. This is her first novel. It is co-authored by the French thriller author Judith Perrignon.
Pol Koutsakis
Pol Koutsakis, born in Crete in 1974, writes novels, plays and screenplays. Athenian Blues is his first novel to be translated into English.
Hans Werner Kettenbach
Kettenbach is 78 and still writing. He was a somewhat late bloomer: A football journalist at 28, he earned a history and philosophy degree at 36 and published his first novel at 50.
Iain Levison
Iain Levison has worked as a truck driver, an Alaskan crab fisherman and kept down a number of other wage slave jobs before settling down to write dark, funny crime novels with a social bite.
Ernesto Mallo
Ernesto Mallo, a former anti-junta militant in Argentina, has written his first novel...